On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:44, Erylon Hines wrote: > Looks like that's whats been done. Any errors trying to access will have a > lot to do with DNS updates not showing up on our servers for 24 hours or so > (just guessing, but I've seen it before). > > However, their solution is pretty half-assed, and I can see all kinds of holes > in their thinking. The next dns worm that's aimed at them will be getting > its address from Google or somewhere similar, and not using the static > address like this one apparantly does. Also, I'm beginning to wonder if > there isn't more to this worm than the spin doctors would have us believe, > because the solution MS may be using seems kind of extreme. They've > sacrificed the update feature for hundreds of thousands of users, many of > whom are going to become infected in the next 24 hours. A fishy smell, > there.
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